Swedish Exodus

by Lars Ljungmark

Book Overview

"America fever" gripped Sweden in the middle of the nineteenth century, seethed to a peak in 1910, when one-fifth of the world's Swedes lived in America, cooled during World War I, and chilled to dead ash with the advent of the Great Depression in 1930.

Swedish Exodus,

the first English translation and revision of Lars Ljungmark's Den Stora Utvandringen, recounts more than a century of Swedish emigration, concentrating on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080930905X
• ISBN13: 9780809309054
• Release Date: November 1979
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"